Multi-functional traffic signal stick

ABSTRACT

Disclosed herein is a multi-functional traffic signal stick, which has a red signal LED part for providing a signal stick function and a white signal LED part for providing a flash light function, and which a police officer carries on the road. The multi-functional traffic signal stick can be carried conveniently as a flash light by telescoping each joint of a length-adjustable flashing tube manufactured in an antenna type into a larger tube, and used as a signal stick, which is well seen from a far distance, by stretching each joint of the length-adjustable flashing tube like an antenna. In addition, the present invention can serve to inform danger or accidents when being mounted uprightly on the road or a proper place such that three supporting rods mounted on a grip part at regular intervals are unfolded to support the signal stick.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to a multi-functional traffic signalstick, which has a red signal LED part for providing a signal stickfunction and a white signal LED part for providing a flash lightfunction, and which a police officer carries on the road.

Furthermore, the present invention can be carried conveniently as aflash light by telescoping each joint of a length-adjustable flashingtube manufactured in an antenna type into a larger tube, and used as asignal stick, which is well seen from a far distance, by stretching eachjoint of the length-adjustable flashing tube like an antenna. Inaddition, the present invention can serve to inform danger or accidentswhen being mounted uprightly on the road or a proper place such thatthree supporting rods mounted on a grip part at regular intervals areunfolded to support the signal stick.

BACKGROUND ART

In general, the traffic signal stick has a number of LEDs mounted insidethe signal stick, and is used for induction of a direction of cars orfor traffic control by repeatedly turning the LEDs on and off orcontinuously emitting a red signal.

Such a conventional traffic signal stick is used for the purpose ofinforming the position and behavior of a person who sends a hand signalat night in order to facilitate a traffic flow or to inform the signalclearly, and for the purpose of sending a signal for safety of workersor for induction of coming and going of cars when the workers work atnight. However, in these cases, the signal stick is mostly used forpreventing accidents or controlling traffic, but cannot be used as aflash light for sending a signal by being stood on the road or a properplace in a dark place where there is no person.

DISCLOSURE Technical Problem

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the aboveproblems occurring in the prior art, and it is an object of the presentinvention to provide a traffic signal stick which a police officercarries for facilitating flow of cars or checking up the cars on theroad.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a traffic signalstick which has both a function of a signal stick and a function of aflash light.

A further object of the present invention is to provide amulti-functional traffic stick, which can be mounted uprightly on theroad or other proper place by a tripod mounted on the grip part, therebypreventing additional accidents by sending a signal to other people orcars when an accident occurs even though there is no person.

A still further object of the present invention is to provide amulti-functional traffic stick, which is convenient in carrying byminimizing its size in such a way that a length-adjustable flashing tubeis telescoped in an antenna type when it is used as a flash light, andis stretched when it is used as a signal stick.

Technical Solution

To solve the above problems of the prior arts, a multi-functionaltraffic signal tick according to the present invention includes at leastone white signal LED part mounted inside the upper end portion of a grippart thereof, and a number of red LEDs mounted outside the upper endportion of the grip thereof. A user turns on the red LEDs for sending ared signal for smooth flow and safety of cars, and turns on white signalLEDs of the white signal LED part for providing a flash light functionwhen the user does not want to send the signal.

Furthermore, the present invention includes supporting rods formed onthe outer circumference of the grip part at regular intervals, and so,can send a signal for safety by standing the signal stick on the road ora proper place by the supporting rods when the supporting rods areunfolded to support the signal stick, even though there is no person.

Moreover, the present invention includes a length-adjustable flashingtube manufactured in an antenna type, and thereby, emits red signallight in a wide area by stretching each joint of the length-adjustableflashing tube in order to clearly transmit the signal, and isconveniently carried by telescoping each joint of the length-adjustableflashing tube into a larger tube in order to minimize its volume andprovide a flash light function.

The present invention will now be described in detail in connection withpreferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings. Thedrawings of the present invention show an example of the presentinvention, and the present invention is not restricted to the drawings,and can be modified according to the needs of a skilled person withoutdeparting from the scope of the present invention.

The multi-functional traffic signal stick of the present inventionincludes a grip part 10 having a plurality of supporting rod grooves 17formed on the outer circumferential surface thereof at regularintervals; a switch part 11 mounted on and electrically connected to thegrip part 10 for allowing for selection of a signal generating functionand a flash light function; a power supply part 12 disposed inside thegrip part 10 and connected to the switch part 11, the power supply partcontaining a battery therein; a circuit board 13 installed at an upperportion of the inside of the grip part for controlling power-off andemission of a red signal LED part 14 and a white signal LED part 15 inresponse to a signal generated from the switch part 11; alength-adjustable flashing tube 20 connected to the grip part 10 in sucha manner as to be telescoped or stretched in an antenna type; aplurality of supporting rods 16 pivotally mounted at a lower end portionof the grip part in such manner as to be folded to fit into thesupporting rod grooves 17 of the grip part 10 and unfolded to supportthe signal stick with it positioned uprightly on the road or a properplace; and a reflection plate 18 mounted at a lower portion of the whitesignal LED part 15.

The present invention will now be described in connection with preferredembodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings. The presentinvention is not restricted to the drawings, but the drawings of thepresent invention show a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1( a) is a perspective view of an outward appearance of the trafficsignal stick according to a preferred embodiment of the presentinvention, and FIG. 1( b) is a perspective view of the traffic signalstick when it provides the flash light function. The grip part 10includes the switch part 11 for connecting it with the power source andswitching according the wanted functions, the power supply part 12 andthe circuit board 13 mounted inside the grip part 10, and the supportingrods 16 mounted on the circumference of the grip part 10 at regularintervals. The power supply part stops power supply when the switch part11 of the grip part 10 is maintained at its top surface horizontally,the red signal LED part 14 is operated and serves as a signal light whenthe switch part 11 is pressed at its top surface to the left, and thewhite signal LED part 15 is operated and serves as a flash light whenthe switch part 11 is pressed at its top surface to the right. Thecircuit board 13 controls all operations according to the switchingaction. If necessary, the switch part 11 may be a control switch forproviding different functions according to the pressing number of theswitch part 11, that is, stop of power supply, operation of the redsignal LED part when the switch part 11 is pressed once, operation ofthe white signal LED part 15 when the switch part 11 is pressed onceagain after operation of the red signal LED part, and stop of powersupply when the switch part 11 is pressed once again.

The supporting rods 16 are folded and inserted into grooves 17 formed onthe outer circumferential surface of the grip part 10 when a usercarries it, but drawn out from the grooves 17 and unfolded to stand andsupport the signal stick when the traffic signal stick stands on theroad. The supporting rods 16 are connected with the grip part 10 viaconnection pins in such a way as to be inserted into the grooves 17 ordrawn out and unfolded from the grooves 17. The unfolded supporting rod16 adopts means for firmly fixing it and preventing separation of thesupporting rod 16 inserted into the groove from the groove excepting acase where the user pulls and unfolds it with his or her fingers. Sincesuch means can be mounted on the supporting rod 16 by well-known meanssuch as protrusions mounted on both sides of the supporting rod, is willnot be described in detail, and any one of the well-known means can beused.

The grip part 10 is connected with the cylindrical flashing light 20made of light-transmittable material by a coupling part 30 located onthe front end portion thereof. A number of the white signal LED parts 15are mounted at the central portion of the upper surface of the grip part10 inside the coupling part 30, and a number of the red signal LED parts14, preferably four red signal LED parts 14, are mounted around thewhite signal LED parts 15 at regular intervals. The white signal LEDparts 15 and the red signal LED parts are operated when a signal isgenerated. As shown in the drawing, the length-adjustable flashing tube20 is in the form of an antenna made by connecting a number of joints,and the diameter of each joint is gradually reduced when the jointbecomes more distant from the grip part 10. The length-adjustableflashing tube is a tube made of light-transmittable material, andincludes a holding jaw (not shown) formed on the rear end portionthereof for preventing a complete separation from the front end portionof the grip part 10 and a holding part (not shown) mounted on the frontend portion of the grip part and corresponding to the holding jaw of thelength-adjustable flashing tube.

For the flash light function, the length-adjustable flashing tube 20 istelescoped like the antenna to minimize the length of thelength-adjustable flashing tube 20, so that the signal stick emits lightgenerated from the white signal LED part 15 and the user carries itconveniently. The reflection plate 18 is inserted under the white signalLED part 15 to provide an effective flash light function due toreflection of light.

A rechargeable battery can be used inside the power supply part, and thegrip part may have a charging part and a charging connector containedtherein for electrically charging the charging part through the externalpower source such as a battery of a car.

Furthermore, the length-adjustable flashing tube can be stretched bypulling the upper end portion of the length-adjustable flashing tubewith the user hand, and folded by elasticity of a spring in a case wherethe length-adjustable flashing tube is inserted into the grip part.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing the constitution of the trafficsignal stick according to the preferred embodiment of the presentinvention. Referring to the drawing, the operation and effects of thepresent invention will be described as follows.

The traffic signal stick according to the present invention is operatedby the switch part 11 located on the grip part 10. The switch part 11 isdivided into a power off mode, a red LED mode and a white LED mode. Thepower source generated from the power supply part is not supplied toeach part when the switch part 11 is located at the center for the poweroff mode. However, the power supply part supplies electric power to eachpart in the other modes, and so, actions corresponding to each mode areperformed according to a control signal of a controlling part of thecircuit board 13. When the user presses the switch part 11 to the leftto convert the power off mode into the red LED mode for operationcontrol or traffic control, the controlling part of the circuit boardgenerates the corresponding signal and operates red LEDs 22 as a signalso as to help the traffic control and safe work. When the switch part 11is converted into the white LED mode, the controlling part of thecircuit board operates the white signal LED part 15 so as to provide theflash light function.

FIG. 2 shows the length-adjustable flashing tube 20 which can betelescoped like the antenna, the white signal LEDs of the white signalLED parts 15 and the red LEDs 22 fixedly mounted on the grip part 10. Adiffusion mirror mounted on the uppermost layer of the length-adjustableflashing tube 20 for diffusing light of the white signal LED part. Thegrip art 10 is coupled with the flashing tube 20 having the holding jawvia a coupling part (not shown) having the holding part connected withthe grip part in a screw type. It would be appreciated that any one ofthe well-known means for preventing separation of the flashing tube fromthe grip part can be used.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view of a multi-functional traffic signal stickaccording to a modification of the present invention. The white signalLED part 15 is located on the front end portion of the flashing tube 20,and the diffusion mirror for diffusing the light of the white signal LEDpart is mounted on the uppermost layer of the flashing tube 20.Electricity is supplied to the white signal LED part 15 through a wireof a coil type or a straight type, and the red LEDs 22 are located onthe coil type wire. The wire is flexible.

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the outward appearance of amulti-functional traffic signal stick according to the presentinvention, wherein FIG. 1( a) shows a state where a length-adjustableflashing tube is stretched, and FIG. 1( b) shows a state where thelength-adjustable flashing tube is telescoped.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the multi-functional traffic signal stickhaving white and red signal LED parts mounted on the upper end portionof a grip part of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a brief sectional view of another multi-functional trafficsignal stick according to a modification of the present invention,wherein a white signal LED part is located on the front end portion ofthe length-adjustable flashing tube, electric power is supplied througha coil type wire, and red LEDs are located on the coil type wire.

EXPLANATION OF ESSENTIAL REFERENCE NUMERALS IN DRAWINGS

-   10: grip part-   11: switch part-   12: power supply part-   13: circuit board-   14: red signal LED part-   15: white signal LED part-   16: supporting rod-   17: groove-   18: reflection plate-   20: length-adjustable flashing tube-   22: red LED

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

As described above, the multi-functional traffic signal stick accordingto the present invention can allow a police officer to carry it forfacilitating flow of cars or checking up the cars on the road.Furthermore, the present invention has a function of a signal stick anda function of a flash light. Moreover, the present invention can allowthe user to carry it conveniently when it is used as a flash light bytelescoping each joint of the length-adjustable flashing tube in theantenna type into a larger tube, and effectively emit very bright lightby mounting the reflection plate 18 on the white signal LED part. Inaddition, the present invention can be mounted uprightly on the road orother proper place by a tripod having supporting rods mounted on thegrip part 10, thereby preventing additional accidents by sending asignal to other people or cars when an accident occurs even though thereis no worker.

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 5. Amulti-functional traffic signal stick comprising: a grip part (10)having a plurality of supporting rod grooves (17) formed on the outercircumferential surface thereof at regular intervals; a switch part (11)mounted on and electrically connected to the grip part (10) for allowingfor selection of a signal generating function and a flash lightfunction; a power supply part (12) disposed inside the grip part (10)and connected to the switch part, the power supply part containing abattery therein; a circuit board (13) installed at an upper portion ofthe inside of the grip part for controlling power-off and emission of ared signal LED part (14) and a white signal LED part (15) in response toa signal generated from the switch part (11); a length-adjustableflashing tube (20) connected to the grip part in such a manner as to betelescoped or stretched in an antenna type; a plurality of supportingrods (16) pivotally mounted at a lower end portion of the grip part soas to be fit into the supporting rod grooves (17) of the grip part (10)when being folded; a reflection plate (18) mounted at a lower portion ofthe white signal LED part (15); the white signal LED part (15) mountedat the central portion of the upper surface of the grip part, and thered signal LED part (14) mounted around the white signal LED part (15);the switch part (11) turning off the power supply part (12) when theswitch part is maintained at its top surface horizontally, allowing thered signal LED part (14) to be operated to serve as a signal light whenthe switch part is pressed at its top surface to the left, and allowingthe white signal LED (15) part to be operated to serve as a flash lightwhen the switch part is pressed at its top surface to the right; and thesupporting rods (16) inserted into the supporting rod grooves (17)formed on the grip part (10), and serving as a tripod when they areunfolded so as to support the multi-functional traffic signal stick. 6.(canceled)
 7. A multi-functional traffic signal stick according to claim5, wherein the grip part (10) includes a charging part and a chargingconnector contained therein instead of the power supply part (12) forelectrically charging the charging part through a battery of a car orother external power source, and a diffusion mirror is mounted on theupper end portion of the length-adjustable flashing tube above the whitesignal LED part (15) for diffusing light.
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 9. Amulti-functional traffic signal stick comprising: a grip part (10)having a plurality of supporting rod grooves (17) formed on the outercircumferential surface thereof at regular intervals; a switch part (11)mounted on and electrically connected to the grip part (10) for allowingfor selection of a signal generating function and a flash lightfunction; a power supply part (12) disposed inside the grip part (10)and connected to the switch part, the power supply part containing abattery therein; a circuit board (13) installed at an upper portion ofthe inside of the grip part for controlling power-off and emission of ared signal LED part (14) and a white signal LED part (15) in response toa signal generated from the switch part (11); a length-adjustableflashing tube (20) connected to the grip part in such a manner as to betelescoped or stretched in an antenna type; a plurality of supportingrods (16) pivotally mounted at a lower end portion of the grip part soas to be fit into the supporting rod grooves (17) of the grip part (10)when being folded; a white signal LED part (15) mounted at the center ofthe front end portion of the length-adjustable flashing tube (20); aflexible wire of a coil type or a straight type for connecting the whitesignal LED part to the power supply part (12); and a plurality of redLEDs (22) mounted on the flexible wire in such a manner as to spacedapart from one another at regular intervals; and a diffusion mirrormounted on the upper end portion of the length-adjustable flashing tubeabove the white signal LED part (15) for diffusing light.